Joey Sweeney

FUNDRAISERS | When Broad Street Ministry — long a force for good in Center City, offering a bevy of services to those unhoused and/or in deep poverty — rebranded a few years back as Broad Street Love, they also refined and redefined their mission somewhat in just two words: “Radical Hospitality.” Behind that is a pretty broad (forgive me) notion of care and compassion, and to put that in motion, Broad Street Love always needs funds, donations, and awareness of its mission.

BY JOEY SWEENEY | Good day, I am a 50-year-old man newly obsessed with the 1980s pop group called Wham! (Their exclamation point, not mine, but kudos to them for having it, because it makes it impossible to end a sentence with their name and put any other punctuation after it without looking like a typo.) The reason I’m obsessed with Wham! right now is likely the reason you are, too: The eponymous documentary on them currently among Netflix’s top new releases.

We Asked AI To Show Us What Some Cool 1980s Philly People Looked Like And Welp, Here They Are BY JOEY SWEENEY | What is AI for, exactly? Fuck if we know, man! And while we do know that it’s good for taking folks’ jobs away, apparently (but not really), we’re currently messing around to see if our hunch is true: Editorially, it’s more of a toy than it is a legitimate tool. So let’s start here: We love learning about the city’s history of cool people.